Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britain. In 1899, not long after the Patriots' League demonstration of 1896, which resulted in the overthrow of the usurper, Aguinaldo, President McKinley appointed a commission to investigate conditions in the Philippines. They reported a lack of education and "linguistic diversities," plus a Moro element, a small but violent portion of the total population which professed the Mohammedan religion in opposition to the Catholic...
...purely orchestral portion of the program traversed Tschaikowsky's Pathetique Symphony and the Prelude and Liebestod from "Tristan and Isolde"; the assisting artists were Mme. Antoinette Szumowska, who played the Second Chopin Concerto, and Mr. Joseph Schwarz who sang arias from Haendel's "Israel in Egypt" and Verdi's "Ballo in Masshera" and "Wotan's Abschied" from "Die Walkuere...
...Political cant for that portion of the community chiefly interested in "reforms...
...Angeles, Charles S. Chaplin, screen comedian, obtained a temporary injunction preventing the showing of films in which one Charles Amador copies the old time Chaplin makeup, including his famous silly derby hat, half-portion mustache, baggy pants, enormous and weird shoes and nimble bamboo cane. Amador contended that neither Chaplin, nor anyone else, for that matter, is entitled to a monopoly of such a makeup, which was used among the natives "even in the time of King Tut-ankh-Amen." While a temporary injunction was obtained, there has been no permanent decision...
...must come as a welcome relief. For here Mr. Barry has given to us not a comedy which ever and anon lapses into farce, but a true comedy of character. With the sure touch of the artist, and with rare humour, the author has revealed to us a portion of the life of the people around us, and it is pleasant to leave his play, and, going into the world outside, to find there men and women with hopes, ambitions and failings so similar to those whose troubles and difficulties he has here so deftly and sympathetically portrayed...